Volleyball News
At 2009 FIVB Men's Junior Volleyball World Championship, Pune, India

Pool E (final 8)

India bt Russia 25-22 26-28 33-31 22-25 15-11
Belgium bt Argentina 22-25 25-21 28-26 21-25 15-9

India scored their biggest win in team event, they upset WR #4 Russian team in evenly matched match in 2 hours and 20 minutes ... Today we won by our team effort but still hero of the day was Naveen Raja Jacob, , who scored 26 points with very smart thinking ... Gurinder Singh also supported well with scoring 29 points ... For Russia Levan Kalandadze was amazing, who alone scored 41 points for them ... In our group Belgium upset WR #2 Argentinian team in 5 sets.
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Hockey News
At Women's Junior World Cup Hockey 2009, Boston, USA

Pool D - Australia, Belarus, USA and India

India bt Australia 3-2

Goal Scored - Poonam Rani (IND) 45', Monika Badran (IND) 53', Asem Monorama Devi (IND) 70' PC and Casey Eastham (AUS) 31' PC, Marnie Hudson (AUS) 60'

India and Australia played excellent match, Indian girls scored huge upset win in their first Pool D match ... In last edition Australian team finished on 4th and Indian on 11th ... Australin take lead at the end of the first half ... Indian girls scored 2 quick goals in second half to take lead but Australia equalized in 60th minute and match was moving towards draw ... But Indian girls scored a goal in last minute to give us winning start.